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London - British police said it began criminal investigations into the alleged misuse of expenses by several lawmakers.

A "small number" of full inquiries of members of both houses of parliament were necessary, Scotland Yard said late Friday. A panel of specialized detectives was to focus on politicians who allegedly deliberately misled authorities or claimed repayments for non-existing mortgages.

ellington  - A Chinese immigrant to New Zealand who abandoned his 3-year-old daughter at an Australian railway station was found guilty Saturday of murdering his wife before leaving the country.

An all-women jury in the Auckland High Court after a three-week trial took about seven hours to find Nai Yin Xue, 55, guilty of murdering An An Liu, 28, in September 2007.

Tehran  - Supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi are planning more mass rallies on Saturday, despite warnings by Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to call off protests against last week's disputed presidential elections.

The Interior Ministry late Friday banned a rally planned for the next day in central Tehran. Moussavi, who was defeated by incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 polls, called on his supporters to demonstrate against the alleged vote manipulation and for new elections.

Hong Kong  - A 15-year-old rape victim in Hong Kong has been cleared of murdering the baby she conceived during the attack on her, a news report said Saturday.

The teenager was charged with murder after allegedly abandoning the baby to die on the ledge of a block of flats two years ago, the South China Morning Post reported.

However, at a High Court hearing Friday, charges of murder and improperly disposing of a child's body were both dropped after experts said it was uncertain whether the baby had been born alive.

Hong Kong  - Police in Hong Kong investigate whether two bodyguards protecting the Zimbabwean president daughter Bona Mugabe were working illegally on tourist visas.

Zimbabweans Mapfumo Marks and his female colleague Manyaira Reliance Pepukai were spared prosecution for their allged February 13 assault of two newspaper photographers outside a house where Robert Mugabe's daughter lives while studying in Hong Kong.

Washington  - A Pentagon investigation into a US airstrike in Afghanistan last month that killed civilians has concluded there were problems with how the attack was carried out, but said it was "lawful."

Investigators estimated that the number of civilians killed during the May 4 airstrike in Afghanistan's Farah province was 26. However, the unclassified version of the report released Friday by US Central Command revealed that the exact number of civilian casualties may never be known.